LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control README.

Copyright (C) 1996 Ralph Metzler <rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de>
Copyright (C) 1998-2010 Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
(according to GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later)

General

This is the README file for LIRC, the Linux Infrared Remote Control package. The main documentation of this package is available in HTML format:

• For this version at http://lirc.sourceforge.net/lirc.org.
• Current developent version (nightly builds) have no published docs.
• Current docs at http://lirc.org are outdated and the maintenance path is broken.
• After building the documentation is also available at doc/html/index.html.

Updated versions of lirc is available using the website http://lirc.org.

Last version: 0.10.0-rc3

0.10.0 12/8/17

• lib/curl_poll.h: Fix header guard build error on müsl libc.
• Build: Mute libtool when V=0, typo.
• Update driver version info.

0.10.0-rc3 22/6/17

• lircmd: Don't write on non-existing socket (#295).
• VPATH build fixes (#294).
• Don't distribute generated files (#294).
• Portability fixes for python tests in python-pkg/test.
• Portability fixes and some docs for unit tests in test/ dir.
• Build fixes for kfreebsd debian builds.
• Documentation update.

0.10.0-rc2 13/6/17

• Fixed lirc-setup fail-on-start (#290).
• Make python unit tests work on Debian (#289).
• Fix mode2 config file parsing [292].
• Documentation update.
• Build fixes.

0.10.0rc1 28/5/17

• lircd: The deprecated --uinput option is dropped. Use the lircd-uinput(8) daemon instead.
• lircd: The --release option is deprecated.
• lircd: Adding a --immediate-init option which initiates the hardware directly on start and exits on errors.
• lircd, lircd-uinput: Change default release suffix due to linux kernel changes (#263).
• The slinke (a. k. a. slink-e) driver is dropped.
• plugins: Add support for irdroid in the irtoy driver.
• plugins: Enhanced device enumeration, mode2 --list-devices works for most drivers.
• New, shiny (i. e., unstable) python API. See the API docs, module "python bindings". The API is also available as a pypi package, typically at /usr/share/lirc/python-pkg
• lircd-uinput: Multiple config file parsing errors (#284).
• The configs/*conf files no more supports enumerating devices using shell scripts.
• Added enumeration support and server version level check to driver API.
• irrecord: Add --driver-options for lircd symmetry (#277).
• lircd: Fix devices not connected at first attempt (#279).
• lib: Fix failure when parsing absolute paths config files (#281).
• lircd/irsend: Fix bug when sending/receiving concurrently for some remotes (#278, 5 pages!)
• lircd:Fix missing systemd support due to upstream changes (#274).
• Build: Added new configure --enable-devinput option (#264).
• Build: Added new configure --enable-uinput option, ditched HAVE_UINPUT 0.9.4c cludge.
• Build: More quiet, enhanced V=0/V=1 support.
• ftdi driver: Fix off-by-2 timings (#275).
• devinput driver: Fix bad codelength (#263).
• OSX patches(#273)

Build and install.

More complete build and install instructions are available in the manual, the Installation chapter. The fast track:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

The Debian package.

Official packages are now available the Debian stretch and Ubuntu zesty channels.

If the the final 0.10 version will contain a debian source package is yet to be determined.

Upgrading

If you are upgrading from an older version of LIRC take a look at the NEWS file which contains all user visible changes between releases. From the top:

NEWS